==================================================================== Cover Pages Newsletter May 20, 2003 Website: http://xml.coverpages.org Hosted by: OASIS Sponsored by: Corel Corporation, Global eXchange Services, ISOGEN International, SAP, and Sun Microsystems ==================================================================== CONTENTS Featured News Stories Selected Articles and Papers Selected from the Press Events Cover Pages Sponsors -------------------------------------------------------------------- Featured News Stories -------------------------------------------------------------------- Recently featured news stories from the Cover Pages news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/news.html OR http://xml.coverpages.org/covernewsTOP.html W3C Approves Patent Policy Supporting Development of Royalty-Free Web Standards. Congratulations to the W3C Patent Policy Working Group (PPWG), W3C Membership, and W3C leadership for the landmark achievement represented by final approval of the W3C Patent Policy. The policy governs handling of patents in the process of producing Web standards, seeking to assure that W3C Recommendations produced under the policy can be implemented on a Royalty-Free (RF) basis. W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee has published a policy overview and public summary. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-20-c.html UDDI Version 2 Approved as an OASIS Open Standard. OASIS has approved UDDI version 2 as an OASIS Open Standard. UDDI specifies a standard interoperable platform that enables companies and applications to find and use Web services over the Internet. UDDI V2 components include the UDDI Version 2 API Specification, Data Structure, XML Schema, Replication Specification, XML Replication Schema, XML Custody Schema, Operator's Specification, WSDL Service Interface Descriptions, and UDDI tModels. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-20-b.html AdsML Consortium Creates Electronic Data Exchange Standard for Advertising Industry. The AdsML Consortium has announced an XML-based AdsML 1.0 specification which will cover the means by which data is exchanged for all kinds of advertising, in all media and through all stages of an advertisement's lifecycle. The specification will define a set of business process models and an 'AdsML Envelope' XML message format that supports packaging, transmission, verification, validation, and routing of advertising content and related metadata. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-20-a.html OASIS TC Approves Test Framework Documents for ebXML Messaging Service (ebMS) Version 2.0. The OASIS ebXML Implementation, Interoperability and Conformance (IIC) Technical Committee has approved four committee specifications for use in automated conformance testing with ebXML Messaging Service (ebMS) version 2.0. Initial ebXML IIC efforts focus on providing a computable and extensible test framework with ebMS as the first edition of the test suite; related test suites for ebXML CPP/A, BPSS, and Reg/Rep are being considered. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-16-a.html ACM Publishes CACM Special Issue on Digital Rights Management and Fair Use. ACM's flagship journal Communications of the ACM has dedicated a special issue to the theme "Digital Rights Management and Fair Use by Design." The CACM April 2003 issue features seven articles on the need to reconcile competing interests in the creation of DRM rules that govern fair use of copyrighted digital works. Public policy experts are concerned that DRM implementations and new legislation ignore key rights to read, lend, sell, and archive copyrighted works. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-15-b.html IETF Internet Open Trading Protocol Working Group Publishes RFC for Voucher Trading System. The IETF IOTP Working Group has published an RFC on "Requirements and Design for Voucher Trading System (VTS)". The requirements document calls for implementation of the Voucher Trading System based upon a Voucher Trading Protocol (VTP), a VTS Application Programming Interface (VTS-API), and an XML-based Generic Voucher Language (GVL). The VTS addresses the need to credit loyalty points and collect digital coupons or gift certificates. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-15-a.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected Articles and Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------- Selections of abstracted and annotated articles/clippings at: http://xml.coverpages.org/articles.html http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings.html "The Center of the Universe." By Ken North. In Intelligent Enterprise Volume 6, Number 9 (May 31, 2003). XML, Web services, analytics, and other hot technologies have the leading relational DBMS providers working overtime to remain the best choice for managing all of your data. Here's a look at what IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are doing. http://www.intelligententerprise.com/030531/609feat1_1.shtml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#NorthDB "Data As It Happens." By Mark Madsen. In Intelligent Enterprise Volume 6, Number 9 (May 31, 2003). Data in real time, all the time, is what many enterprises want. To make it happen, IT needs to get the big picture -- and not burn out on one-off solutions for single applications. http://www.intelligententerprise.com/030531/609feat2_1.shtml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Madsen "Microsoft Unwraps New Visio Tool. Office Visio 2003 Improves Users' Access to Server-Based Business Data." By Ed Scannell. In InfoWorld (May 20, 2003). Microsoft has unveiled a new version of its Visio diagramming tool that aims to enable corporate users to take better advantage of traditional Office desktop applications and also connect desktop users with server-based line-of-business data. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/20/HNvisio_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#ScannellVisio "DARPA Pads Semantic Web Contract." By Michael Singer. From Internet.com News (May 20, 2003). Web software developer Teknowledge said it has won an extended government contract to help build an evolving version of the World Wide Web that centers on the meaning of words. DARPA has added $634,057 to its now $1.7 million budget to help build the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2209971 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#daml "Web Services Security and More, Part 2: The Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA)." By Joseph M. Chiusano (Booz Allen Hamilton). From Developer.com (May 20, 2003). In Part 2 of this series on GXA, the author covers WS-SecureConversation, WS-Inspection, WS- ReliableMessaging, and WS-Addressing. http://www.developer.com/design/article.php/10925_2209991_1 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#ChiusanoGXA22 "Business Process with BPEL4WS: Learning BPEL4WS, Part 8. Using Switch, Pick, and Compensate." By Rania Khalaf and Nirmal Mukhi (Software Engineers, IBM TJ Watson Research Center). From IBM developerWorks, Web services. May 2003. In a final Part 8, the author illustrates the use of three more BPEL activities: switch, pick, and compensate. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-bpelcol8/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#BPEL4WSP8 "OEBPS: The Universal Consumer eBook Format?" By Jon Noring. In eBookWeb (May 19, 2003). The author outlines seven requirements a universal consumer ebook format must fulfill (one of which is compatibility with an XML-based publishing workflow), and shows that OEBPS adequately fulfills those requirements. The XML conformance of OEBPS certainly plays a fundamental role in the attractiveness of OEBPS as a universal ebook format. http://12.108.175.91/ebookweb/discuss/msgReader$2165 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#NoringOEBPS "W3C Readies New Tech Patent Policy. It Hopes to Stop Vendors' Patent Claims from Slowing Web Standards Work." By Carol Sliwa. In Computerworld (May 19, 2003). The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is poised to unveil a formal policy for dealing with technology patents that have the potential to block the development of interoperable Web standards. http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/webdev/story/0,10801,81309,00.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#SliwaPatents "OASIS OKs UDDI 2. Next Up, An Expanded 3.0 Version. UDDI is Seen As the Basis of a Standards-Based Web Services Architecture." By Stacy Cowley. In Computerworld (May 20, 2003). OASIS yesterday said it has ratified Version 2.0 of the UDDI Web services specification, an important step toward finalization of the widely awaited, significantly expanded 3.0 version of the standard. http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/webservices/story/0,10801,81374,00.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#CowleyUDDI "Introduction: Digital Rights Management and Fair Use by Design." By Deirdre K. Mulligan (Acting Clinical Professor and Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic in Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley). In Communications of the ACM (CACM) Volume 46, Number 4 (April 2003), pages 30-33. Introduction to the special issue by the guest editor. The fair-use exceptions in U.S. copyright law are being undermined by rules programmed into consumer electronics and computers that reflect the exclusive interest of rights holders alone. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-15-b.html#MulliganCACM464 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#MulliganCACM464 "Fair Use, DRM, and Trusted Computing." By John S. Erickson (Principal Scientist, Digital Media Systems Program, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Norwich, VT). In Communications of the ACM (CACM) Volume 46, Number 4 (April 2003), pages 34-39. With 12 references. How can DRM architectures protect historical copyright limitations like fair use while ensuring the security and property interests of copyright owners? Erickson explores DRM architecture and its relation to trusted computing platforms, as well as the disconnect between the security paradigm from which today's DRM systems originate and the exception- riddled, context-laden nature of copyright law. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-15-b.html#EricksonCACM464 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#EricksonCACM464 "DRM {and, or, vs.} the Law." By Pamela Samuelson (Chancellor's Professor of Law and Information Management at the University of California at Berkeley and Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology). In Communications of the ACM (CACM) Volume 46, Number 4 (April 2003), pages 41-45. With 7 references. Samuelson covers the varied relationships between DRM and the law, explaining that DRM provides potentially far more control to copyright holders than the law provides or permits and that, in its current legal interpretation, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 provides nearly unlimited protection to DRM. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-15-b.html#SamuelsonCACM464 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#SamuelsonCACM464 "Users Still Bullish on Web Services." By John Fontana. In Network World (May 19, 2003). Galileo International hit a home run last year with a pilot of four Web services designed to help extend the reach of its travel booking and itinerary services. The number of Galileo customers using the services -- now in production mode -- has risen from one to 35, and those customers are clamoring for more. http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0519revisited.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Fontana "WASP Gives Web Services Development Some Sting. WASP Server and Developer Tools Handle Real-World Web Services Management." Review by Phillip J. Windley. In (May 16, 2003). WASP Server and WASP Developer from Systinet do a nice job of providing the professional-grade tools for creating and deploying Web services in both Java and C++. WASP Server is a full-featured Web services run-time environment. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/16/20TCwasp_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Windley "Microsoft Courting OMG Again." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (May 12, 2003). After years of bitter battles with the Object Management Group, Microsoft Corp. may be poised to rejoin the consortium to make use of the OMG's architecture expertise. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1075095,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#TaftUML "SCO Signs Pact With Microsoft, Warns Users on Linux Use." By Jack Vaughan and John K. Waters. In Application Development Trends (May 19, 2003). The SCO Group said it has licensed its Unix technology, including patent and source code licenses, to Microsoft Corp. SCO claimed in a statement that the licensing deal ensures Microsoft's intellectual property compliance across all Microsoft solutions and will better enable Microsoft to ensure compatibility with Unix and Unix services. http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7694 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Vaughan "Berners-Lee: Standards Groups Are 'Very Different Places'. He Discussed How the W3C and OASIS Tackle Web Services Standards." By Carol Sliwa. In Computerworld (May 19, 2003). Tim Berners-Lee, director of the W3C, spoke with Computerworld this month about recent moves by technology vendors to submit Web services standards proposals to OASIS instead of his organization. http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/webservices/story/0,10801,81308,00.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#TBL "Implement Secure .NET Web Services with WS-Security." By Klaus Aschenbrenner (Solvion). From DevX.com (May 12, 2003). Web Services Enhancements 1.0 for Microsoft .NET (WSE) provides the functionality for Microsoft .NET Framework developers to support the latest Web services capabilities. http://www.devx.com/security/Article/15634 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Aschenbrenner "XML Group to Help First Responders." By Dibya Sarkar. In Federal Computer Week (May 12, 2003). A consortium of private- and public- sector organizations, university groups and nonprofit agencies are driving an initiative to create standards for using Extensible Markup Language to help first responders and others communicate and exchange information during emergencies. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0512/tec-xml-05-12-03.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Sarkar "Adding SALT to HTML." By Simon Tang. From XML.com (May 14, 2003). You can add speech to your applications with SALT, Speech Application Language Tags. The author introduces multimodal XML technology, specifically SALT; using Microsoft's .NET Speech SDK, developers should be able to add SALT elements to HTML web pages. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/05/14/salt.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Tang "Using libxml in Python." By Uche Ogbuji. From XML.com (May 14, 2003). Uche Ogbuji introduces libxml and its Python bindings. Daniel Veillard's libxml and libxslt libraries are popular because of their speed, active development, and coverage of many XML specifications with close attention to conformance. They are also available on many platforms. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/05/14/py-xml.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#OgbujiLibxmlPython "Interactive Web Applications with XQuery." By Ivelin Ivanov. From XML.com (May 14, 2003). In this article installment the author continues to discuss practical uses of XQuery, focusing this time on interactive web page generation. The example uses XQuery to front-end Amazon web services with HTML. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/05/14/xquery.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#IvanovInteractive "Getting Web Services Ready for Business." By Alan Kotok. From WebServices.org (May 12, 2003). The Report from XML Europe 2003: documents good, interoperable documents better, secure interoperable documents best. This year's event gave the unmistakable impression that XML in general and Web services in particular were ready for business or at least ready to talk business. http://www.webservices.org/index.php/article/articleview/1014/1/24/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Kotok "How ASP.NET Web Services Work." By Aaron Skonnard (DevelopMentor). In Microsoft MSDN Library (May 2003). Microsoft ASP.NET Web services methods (WebMethods) provide a high-productivity approach to building Web services. WebMethods can expose traditional Microsoft .NET methods as Web service operations that support HTTP, XML, XML Schema, SOAP, and WSDL. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/howwebmeth.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Skonnard "Using the Zip Classes in the J# Class Libraries to Compress Files and Data with C#." By Ianier Munoz (Dokumenta). In Microsoft MSDN Magazine (June 2003). Zip compression lets you save space and network bandwidth when storing files or sending them over the wire. This article explains how to use the Microsoft J# class libraries to create an application in C# that compresses and decompresses Zip files. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/06/ZipCompression/default.aspx http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Munoz "The Fortune of the Commons. [Survey: The IT Industry.]" By [Staff]. In The Economist Newspaper (May 08, 2003). For the first time, the IT industry is widely adopting open standards -- thanks to the internet. http://www.economist.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=1747362 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#Economist "Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 Use Cases and Requirements." Edited by Glenn Adams (Extensible Formatting Systems, Inc). W3C Working Draft 15-May-2003. Produced by members of the W3C Timed Text (TT) Working Group as part of the W3C Synchronized Multimedia Activity. This document specifies usage scenarios and requirements for a timed text authoring format. A timed text authoring format is a content type that represents timed text media for the purpose of interchange among authoring systems. Timed text is textual information that is intrinsically or extrinsically associated with timing information. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-tt-af-1-0-req-20030515/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#TTReq "Bosak on Universal Business Language (UBL)." By Simon St.Laurent. From xmlhack.com (May 15, 2003). At last week's XML Europe, Jon Bosak, the 'father of XML', explained how he hoped XML might help in 'saving the world', leveling the playing field of global commerce by lowering the cost of doing business. Noting that the "social agenda of SGML has always been about creator ownership of content," with vendor, platform, and language neutrality at its core, Bosak now wants to take that social agenda and apply it in a much larger context. http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1967 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#StLaurent-UBL "Add XML Functionality to Your Flash Movies." By Jean-Luc David. From (May 15, 2003). In support of the XML standard, Macromedia has added XML functionality to the Flash Player. http://builder.com.com/article.jhtml;?id=u00220030514jld01.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#JLDavid "Style Stylesheets to Extend XSLT, Part 2. Improving the Trace Generator." By Joseph Kesselman (Advisory Scientist, IBM). From IBM developerWorks, XML zone. In this article installment the author develops a more polished version of an XSLT stylesheet to enhance another stylesheet, making the trace generator more detailed, more selective, and more controllable -- and as a bonus, he includes a reusable XPath generator template. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-styless2/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#KesselmanXSLT2 "A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Web3D Consortium (Web3D)." By Aaron E. Walsh (Mantis Development Corp), WWW. IETF Network Working Group. Request for Comments: #3541. May 2003. Category: Informational. This document describes a Uniform Resource Name (URN) namespace for the Web3D Consortium (Web3D) for naming persistent resources such as technical documents and specifications, Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) and Extensible 3D (X3D) files and resources, Extensible Markup Language (XML) Document Type Definitions (DTDs), XML Schemas, namespaces, style sheets, media assets, and other resources produced or managed by Web3D. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3541.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#AWalsh "Requirements and Design for Voucher Trading System (VTS).". By Ko Fujimura (NTT Corporation) and Donald E. Eastlake 3rd (Motorola). IETF Network Working Group. Request for Comments: #3506. Category: Informational. March 2003. This document presents a Voucher Trading System (VTS) that circulates vouchers securely and its terminology; it lists design principles and requirements for VTS and the Generic Voucher Language (GVL), with which diverse types of vouchers can be described. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3506.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200305.html#RFC3506 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected from the Press -------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html "World Wide Web Consortium Approves Patent Policy. W3C Members, Director Establish Policy for Encouraging Royalty-Free Web Standards." http://xml.coverpages.org/W3C-PatentPolicy2003.html "UDDI v2 Ratified as OASIS Open Standard. Building Block for Web Services Advances Within Open Process." http://xml.coverpages.org/UDDI-Version2Standard.html "XML 2003 Call for Presentations, Tutorials, Exhibits, and Sponsors." http://xml.coverpages.org/XML2003-CFP.html "International Consortium Seeks Global Standard for Electronic Data Exchange for Advertising. AdsML Standard Will Build on Existing Standards, Set Specifications For Crucial Processes. All Advertising Media Ultimately Affected." http://xml.coverpages.org/AdsMLv10Announce.html "Galileo International Launches Web Services Platform Globally Enabling Clients To Build Customized Applications. Travel Industry's First Web Services Solution Leverages Galileo's GDS, Saves Up to 80% in Development Time and Lowers Cost." http://xml.coverpages.org/GalileoGlobalWS.html "Conference Examines the Role of XML for Clinical Data Management and Regulatory Submissions." http://xml.coverpages.org/PharmaXML2003.html "RWS Group Co-sponsors LISA Forum Europe 2003. RWS Expert Localization Engineer Yves Savourel Presents XML and Localization Workshop." http://xml.coverpages.org/LISA-Europe2003.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Events -------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html XML 2003 Conference and Exhibition. "Now We're Cooking". December 7 - 12, 2003. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2003/ http://xml.coverpages.org/XML2003-CFP.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#xml2003 XML and Pharmaceutical Data Management Summit 2003. September 23 - 24, 2003. Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://xml.coverpages.org/PharmaXML2003.html http://www.cptpharma.org/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#pharma2003 Oxford CSW XML Summer School 2003. Fourth Annual Event. July 27 - 31, 2003. Wadham College, Oxford, UK. http://www.xmlsummerschool.com/ http://www.xmlsummerschool.com/Programme.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#xmlSummerSchool2003 The LISA Forum Europe. June 30 - July 3, 2003. Radisson Edwardian Heathrow, London, UK. http://www.lisa.org/events/2003uk/ http://xml.coverpages.org/LISA-Europe2003.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#lisaEurope2003 SVG Open 2003. July 13 - 18, 2003. Westin Bayshore Resort and Marina, Vancouver, BC, Canada. http://www.svgopen.org/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#SVG-Open2003 O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention (OSCON) 2003. "Extend and Embrace." July 7 - 11, 2003. Portland Marriot Downtown, Portland, Oregon, USA. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/23/sessions.html http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200301.html#clip2003-01-21-d http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#oscon2003 W3C Workshop on the Long Term Future of P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages. June 18 - 20, 2003. Multimedia Campus Kiel, Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein), Germany. http://www.w3.org/2003/p3p-ws/ http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-04-30-b.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#p3p-2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cover Pages Sponsors -------------------------------------------------------------------- Publication costs for the Cover Pages website and for this newsletter are underwritten by OASIS Members committed to providing this OASIS resource freely to the public: Sun Microsystems, Inc. URL: http://sun.com SAP URL: http://www.sap.com ISOGEN International LLC URL: http://www.isogen.com Global eXchange Services URL: http://www.gxs.com Corel Corporation URL: http://www.corel.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list send a post to: